# The How to Live Newsletter

> Every Wednesday, author Amanda Stern unearths the invisible forces that guide our thoughts, shape our choices, and define how we live.

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## Posts
- [Picking Fights With Dead Men](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/dead-men): Plus Intro to Kinesthetic Realism Is Back!
- [September TL;DR](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/september-tl-dr-7bcb): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [I am Your Anxious Child All Grown-Up. Here's What I Want You to Know.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/anxiouschild): What I wish someone had told my parents
- [The Diary Drawings of Paul Klee](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/paulklee): A Friday Drop for Premium Members
- [The Healing Magic of Dialing the Wrong Number ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/wrongnumber): How a Stranger Taught Me to Take Things Less Personally 
- [How to Become Who You Mean to Be: 45 Notes From a Five-Day Retreat](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/45notes): Lessons on meaning, indecision, and the difference between nice and kind
- [Sharing a Piece of My Past, Before it Disappears](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/bookable): Bookable, the podcast
- [August TL;DR](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/august-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [The Brilliant Simplicity of Michael McGregor's Hotel Stationery Art. ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/hotelart): A young artist turns an often overlooked item into a canvas
- [The Dark Side of Bright Siding](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/darkbright): Toxic Positivity is Negative
- [Red Riding Hood, Stripes, Rubbish: The Young Readers Press First Dictionary](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/firstdictionary): Images that slow down time.
- [Freud Said It Was Your Father. His Best Student Said It Was Your Birth.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/ottorank): Otto Rank on Life and Death Fear
- [The Psychologist Who Discovered That Thoughts Shape Suffering](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/oldways): Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.
- [Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Naming](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/thrownness): A short glossary of unnamed experience
- [Why is it So Hard to Get Healthy? ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/hussey): Why remaining stuck costs more than getting better. 
- [The Invisible Autobiography](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/invisibleautobiography): 3 prompts for paid subscribers
- [Things Worth Sharing](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/readingandwatching2026): What I'm Watching, Reading and Thinking About
- [July TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/july-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [Raymond Carver's Editor Taught a Cult Workshop. I Have the Notes.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/lish): The notes from Gordon Lish's private workshop.
- [How to Speak: Patrick Winston on Being Unafraid.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/howtospeak): He gave the same lecture for forty years, and millions of strangers who'd never take his class started watching anyway.
- [How to be Human: Andrew Solomon on the Meaning of Difference ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/solomonwinnicott): Why we correct what we would do well to embrace
- [Let's Take David Foster Wallace's Class](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/dfw): The complete materials from his legendary 2003 fiction seminar
- [Freud and Adler's Friendship Ended Over an Idea. A Book Built on It Sold 13 Million Copies.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/adlervfreud): The psychology Alfred Adler left behind, and the question two therapists built into a bestseller seven decades later.
- [Buckminster Fuller and the Sixty-Six-Year Experiment to Document His Existence](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/buckminster): Plus, a new prompt.
- [June TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/june-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [The Invisible Rules About Who Counts](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/whocounts): The secret qualifications that make a family
- [Peter Hujar, Linda Rosenkrantz, and the Art of Noticing What You Actually Do With a Day](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/everyday): A small experiment in noticing
- [Why Everyone Believes They See the World as It Is–And No One Does](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/why-everyone-believes-they-see-the-world-as-it-is-and-no-one-does): The psychology of why we experience our opinions as facts, and how it impacts us.
- [The Era of Miracle Cures](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/snakeoil): Snake oil, miracle cures, and the advertisements that sold them.
- [How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/braining): Our brains have hidden systems. We're not using them.
- [MAY TL;DR ](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/may-tl-dr): Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!
- [What Happens When 107 People Help You Interpret Your Pain](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/sophiecalle): In Take Care of Yourself, an artist turns a breakup letter into a collective act of interpretation.
- [Finding Depth in a World Bent on Flattening.](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/flattenedworld): Things I'm listening to, reading, watching, seeing...
- [The 82-Year-Old Artist Who Draws What Being Alive Feels Like](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/rosaire): A Friday Drop
- [When You Need Help: A Wildly Comprehensive Mental Health Resource Guide](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/2026resourceguide)
- [The Strange Fate of Alfred Binet’s Intelligence Test](https://www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org/p/binetforgood): On the Difficulty of Controlling What We Create